HONJO`s POETRY & ART

Poems from "DO NOT WRITE THIS DOWN"

 1.

The eternal paraffin lamp is burning sootily above a city

a kilometer  further to the north

a model with shackles named River

advertises the latest trend in heavy industry

 

 

between pure soul and filthy body

I vote for pure soul

 

I draw a bow with arrow

I declare war against filthy body

I shout  - long live progress

and  my battle cry  is – down with pollution

 

 

forgive me history

do not write this down

leave it to the authorities

this is innovation

in which the first fault is – call to arms

and the second fault – clean environment

 

2.

 

To your erosion Earth

only one step is left

 

to your destruction man

even less

 

a hungry pack of vultures

is playing the music for their last feast

and waiting for the button to be pushed

 

 

who will be their last mouthful

eaten with pleasure

 

 

 

 

 

3.

 

A prophecy speaks about self destruction

about the three mountains of salvation

about the eternal life in abundance

 

 

I know the mystery of three mountains

they are paying me with gold

I thank them

 

they name me egoist

and a morally degenerate person

I thank them

 

I am locking the invisible door

of no return

4.

Then the Era of Demolition will begin

my son and I will not appear

at that promotion

 

 

there will not be a father and a son         

only the saints and cursed

as a warning to the race

created by

Epicurus

Leucippus 

and  Democritus

 

5.

After the Era of Demolition

only Adam and Eve

 

 

after Adam and Eve

only bows and arrows

 

 

in the middle of the universe

I am waiting for the baptism of arrows

 

6.

Man

the time has come

prepare bows and arrows

set up barricades

set up barriers

 

 

man

the time has come

draw bows to shoot arrows

at my signal

let us start the baptism of arrows

 

 

man

shoot the arrows

 

 

I am right here

among the ones who will survive

and the ones who will not

I am watching the baptism of arrows

of innocent boys

 

7.

The last war is roaring

as I am singing verses about peace

accompanied with the violin

I am jumping over exhausted forests

 

 

I keep jumping over exhausted rivers

loose bows

and poisonous arrows

 

the Earth is again an infernal planet

eureka

let her wait

 

8.

 

Earth

have not your massive cross-shaped rocks

turned black of shame old for centuries

 

 

why don’t you recover yourself Earth

have not human bodies

fertilized you well

 

the last war is roaring

bundles of arrows are whistling

 

gods of love and peace

destroy distributors of arrows

 

let your era begin

is it not distressing to you

that a human being is a target

that a human being is

the target of another human being

 

9.

 

 

That year a goddess of love

will reunite the children at the Square of Equality

 

 

all will shout one slogan

all will carry identical signs

 

 

down with bows and arrows

all will shout in harmony

 

 

long live love and clean air

 

 

all quiet in the western front that year

in my native country

rocks will grow again

the Earth will be a planet continent

 

amour vincit omnia

 

THE CENTRE OF THE CENTRE OF PEOPLE IS MAN

 

 

 

1.

 

 

 

Statistics

of a massive phenomena

biological

geographical

demographical

 

the last ones

revolve around people

a man is the real thing

here we are

this is the centre of the centre

an eye around the centre of the centre

all is in the eyes

statistics

all mysteries begin with it

all solutions are in statistics

 

 

2.

 

 

In terms of space

people as phenomenon

are extremely spread out

 

 

in terms of time

unpredictable

 

 

conceptually

undefined

 

 

attributively

elusive

 

 

 

numerically

they even slip to statistics

at least five percent

 

3.

 

 

We can place them in groups

citizens

and the others

 

tenants and landlords

sycophants and spineless

natives and assimilated

strangers and the ones who lost their way

famous and  inglorious

and also these and those

those and these

and those others

 

by colour

most of them are invisible

 

by inclination

bound and bandaged

and also this kind and that kind

and like this into infinity

 

it is not my place to judge

nor to divide them

 

4.

The centre of the centre

of people

is a man

 

 

how to define the intensity of humanity

when for everyone who is at all similar

there are more alternatives

 

 

with a thought about a man

even statistics goes mad

 

5.

 

 

 

How lucky Columbus is

because people still sail his way

and because his egg is not rotten

 

 

if statistics reach for him

the Earth won’t be round any more

and it will lack at least five percent

 

 

until that time

Columbus’s egg

remains in the domain of physics

 

 

the centre of the centre

of people is a man

and a man is

an undefined statistical fact